The Hamburg public prosecutor today brought murder charges against former Warsaw Gestapo chief Ludwig Hahn. In June 1973, Hahn was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for complicity in the murder of an indefinite number of Jews and Poles in Warsaw’s Pawiak jail from 1941 to 1944. Because of age and ill-health, Hahn was not committed to prison. He also appealed against the sentence. The new charges brought yesterday accuse Hahn of murdering 2000 Polish civilians in Aug. 1944 during the Warsaw uprising.
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